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Full Idea
'Causal' counterfactuals have a place, of course, but only as clumsy and inexact linguistic gestures to dispositions, and they should be kept in that place.
Gist of Idea
Causal counterfactuals are just clumsy linguistic attempts to indicate dispositions
Source
C.B. Martin (The Mind in Nature [2008], 02.6)
Book Ref
Martin,C.B.: 'The Mind in Nature' [OUP 2008], p.19
A Reaction
Counterfactuals only seem to give a regularity account of causation, by correlating an effect with a minimal context which will give rise to it. Surely dispositions run deeper than that?